Fix typo

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 1b85d69cf531a900a76c8213618680741b40694e..9eb7d19a46483b6012d7fa2950b7688cd57cefd6 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    total.  *start* defaults to ``0``. The *iterable*'s items are normally numbers,
    and the start value is not allowed to be a string.
 
-   For some use cases, there a good alternatives to :func:`sum`.
+   For some use cases, there are good alternatives to :func:`sum`.
    The preferred, fast way to concatenate a sequence of strings is by calling
    ``''.join(sequence)``.  To add floating point values with extended precision,
    see :func:`math.fsum`\.  To concatenate a series of iterables, consider using